Alligator uses crosswalk to cross South Carolina road
A South Carolina man captured video of a safety-minded alligator crossing a road by using the designated crosswalk. Pawleys Island resident Jimmy Card posted a video to Facebook showing the alligator crossing a road at Huntington State Park. The gator obeys the rules of the road by using the crosswalk. The video shows the reptile […]
Zimbabwe Opposition Rejects Ruling and 'False' Inauguration
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader said Saturday he respectfully rejects the court ruling upholding President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s narrow election win and he called the inauguration set for Sunday “false.” Nelson Chamisa spoke a day after the Constitutional Court unanimously rejected the opposition’s claims of vote-rigging and said it did not bring “sufficient and credible evidence.” Chamisa […]
South Sudan Peace Deal To Resume in Khartoum, August 27 -September 3
Negotiations on the implementation of the South Sudan peace deal will resume in Khartoum from August 27 and run to September 3 after a break on August 19 for the Eid al Adha celebrations. Among the pending issues are the number of states the country should have; judicial reforms and the creation of the Constitutional […]
Gov't Endorses Plans To Rename Ho Technical University After Musicologist, Ephraim Amu
Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has endorsed a decision by the governing council of the Ho Technical University in the Volta Region, to rename the institution after the late Ghanaian Musicologist, Ephraim Amu. Touting some achievements of Mr. Amu especially his contribution towards Ghanaian Music, the President said his legacy and contribution towards the […]
RwandAir, Uganda order the Airbus A330 Neos
Airbus A330 Neos are becoming more popular in East Africa, with RwandAir and Uganda Airlines operating the aircraft. Rwanda’s national carrier will be taking delivery of two A330-900 Neos next year for flights to the US and Asia. Uganda has signed a deal for the delivery of two of the planes. RwandAir currently operates two […]
Conserveria Africana Donates to Muslim Community in Kumasi
Conserveria Africana, distributors of the Gino brand of food products in Ghana has donated several quantities of food products to the Muslim community at the central mosque in Kumasi in the Ashanti region to coincide with the celebration by Muslims worldwide of Eid Al-Adha, the holiest festival in the Islamic calendar. Eid Al-Adha or the Festival of Sacrifice […]
Isaac Dogboe Demolishes Hidenori Otake in One Round
World Boxing Organization super bantamweight champion, Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe made the first defense with a first round demolition of Japanese challenger Hidenori Otake. Isaac Dogboe’s first title defense couldn’t have really gone any better, retaining the WBO super bantamweight title. Otake went down twice before the contest was waved off in the first round. […]
US Senator John McCain dies aged 81
Senator John McCain, the Vietnam war hero turned senator and presidential candidate, has died aged 81. Mr McCain died on Saturday surrounded by his family, according to a short statement released by his office. He was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour in July 2017 and had been undergoing medical treatment. His family announced Mr. […]
Ghanaian novelist, Cameron Douduo eulogises Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan made Ghana and Africa proud IT’S true that in the early 1960s, Ghana played a very prominent role at the United Nations. Although Ethiopia and Liberia–among the black African UN members–had been members of the organisation before Ghana joined it, Ghana was the African country that was the first to offer troops […]
President Akufo-Addo Joins Hundreds To Celebrate Annual Chala Wote Festival
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday, August 25, joined hundreds of people to celebrate the annual Chala Wote festival. The CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival is an alternative platform that brings art, music, design, dance and performance out into the streets. The community-based festival which takes place in James Town – one of Accra’s […]
Beneath The Veneer of Ghana's Cultural Magnificence
Kudos, Kofi Darko Asante! you’ve burst through the culture of indifference. Authored By CAMERON DUODU IT would have been easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer grandeur of the durbar held at Kyebi on August 23, 2018 by the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, at which the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu The Second, was the […]
Increasing bunker prices narrowing profitability in container trade – GSA
The Ghana Shippers’ Authority, (GSA), has revealed that the rising bunker prices has narrowed the profitability in the container market despite the growth in economic outlook and world merchandise trade in the first half of the year. According to the GSA, the average bunker prices from January-June increased by 25 per cent compared to […]
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital screens new-borns for sickle cell disease
The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has as at July 2018, screened 4, 514 new-borns for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), under the first phase of a pilot programme launched in June 2017. The President of the Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana, Professor Kwaku Ohene-Frimpong, explained that out of those screened, 74 were found to be positive […]
AngloGold Ashanti CEO Pays Farewell Call On Asantehene
The outgoing CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, Srinivasan Venkatrikrishnan (Venkat) has paid a farewell visit on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, at his Palace, Manhyia. The visit was to officially inform the Asantehene of his departure from the company after 18 years with the Company of which five years was as the CEO of the […]
